Surviving The Fourth Calamity

Chapter 560: Chapter 358: Who is the Opponent of the God of Magic?

Although Hill had long known that William had a thick skin, he really didn’t expect this guy’s heart to be so dark.

But with Spencer, one willing to hit and the other willing to be hit, outsiders couldn’t intervene.

Most of the time, this was a way for the two cousins to bond. However, a laid-back employee like Hill could never understand or agree with it.

In a world of 996 or even 007 work schedules, Hill was the type who considered working half an hour past office hours as overtime.

Considering overtime as fun, without deep emotional ties, who could manage that!

Whenever Hill thought of Spencer’s future, he found the mortal world truly beautiful.

Things like the Divine Kingdom, endless work, should be left for dreams! And even then, it would be a nightmare.

The platform slowly returned, and Spencer greeted the victorious pair with a smile.

Hill didn’t look at the guy who had been brainwashed by his dear cousin William; he finally thought of a more fitting trading item: ”Your Majesty, do you still need a semi-divine artifact painting?”

William was stunned: ”You mean the painting that became a divine artifact, the treasure derived from it can reach semi-divine artifact level?”

”Of course!” Hill widened his eyes at him, ”It’s infused with earth system divine arts! The first time the Goddess of the Earth made a move after waking up, how could it be anything less?

The three gods even gathered once again at my place!”

”What?” William was somewhat puzzled, ”How did they get there? The World Membrane didn’t react at all! Even if it’s a phantom clone, appearing on the ground should’ve been sensed by other deities, right?”

”There’s a branch of the World Tree, an oak tree in my valley, containing Sun Shards and Moon Shards that generate a sun and a moon. The Sun God and the Goddess of Silvermoon can directly enter the oak tree through those shards.

The Goddess of the Earth can of course appear anytime she wishes.

They didn’t actually enter the earth, just gathered inside the oak tree.

If they went outside, the other gods would probably feel it.”

William glanced at Hill: ”Did you see them?”

”How could I?” Hill shook his head, ”The three deities’ longing for the past, it’s so intense, why would I join that commotion? I just sent the painting over for them to enjoy.

After the gathering ended, my painting leveled up.”

Hill let out a slight smile: ”I initially just wanted to try, never expected the first replication to be a semi-divine artifact!”

”Still ten pieces?” William asked curiously.

”Only three.” Hill sighed, ”But I can still replicate ten at legendary level. However, given Teraxil’s current situation, legendary-level paintings aren’t much use.”

William coldly stared at Hill, and Hill responded with a gentle smile.

William didn’t understand the happiness of a god’s second-generation child.

The blessing the Goddess of the Earth gave Hill couldn’t possibly be worse than those from the Sun and Silvermoon. It’s treatment for family.

Hill was willing to exchange a semi-divine artifact painting for William, purely out of consideration for his cousin.

”Three semi-divine artifact paintings, plus ten pieces of mithril the size of a law book and a block of star meteoric iron.” William decisively quoted, ”Mithril cannot be less! Don’t think I don’t know, your tribe is right in the middle of the Mithril Range.

The Earth Bear’s limited purchase policy, it must have learned from you.

No, it’s probably the training you gave them before you left, right? That seemingly capable Aurelio in charge now, wasn’t really as clever as he appeared! What others can’t get, you must have a lot.”

Hill hesitated for a moment but agreed, thinking about his warehouse’s stock of mithril.

His concern wasn’t about the quantity of mithril being enough, but rather if he had ten pieces that small.

When the World Tree rose from the tribe’s land, countless roots extending deep into the earth shot out many pieces of mithril, some as large as mushroom cottages.

Even Hill’s largest space ring was full, and the smaller pieces, just as William described, were usually reserved for Oriana and their toys.

Hill thought it prudent to keep some of them in the small space ring pendant for potential trades with others later on.

Hill instructed List to retrieve them. If they couldn’t find them that small, they could use a few slightly larger pieces instead.

And Hill wondered if William thought this mithril was mined from the Mithril Mountain by him?

Should he tell William the truth?

Although it might strike a blow to the king who admired personal mining, Hill really never needed to mine himself.

If Hill wanted any ore, he could simply stand on the ground and pick it up.

The earth would deliver whatever he desired right to him.

Hill didn’t even need to summon Earth Elemental Spirits to help dig.

But List quickly completed the task, interrupting Hill’s musings. Although two of the mithril ores were slightly larger, it wasn’t much of a difference.

Hill thought he should prepare some mithril plates when he had the time, so he wouldn’t need to break them next time he traded with someone.

Hill promptly took out the painting and ores.

Spencer glanced at them and quickly came over to collect the ores.

William pocketed two of the paintings, holding the remaining one to inspect what spells and blessings the Goddess of the Earth had imbued.

He stared blankly at the blessing spell: anyone standing within sixty meters of the painting, received a 25% bonus to earth system spell damage.

This was just a separated semi-divine artifact, if it was the original, wouldn’t it be 50%?

Hill’s earth spells already had bonuses, so didn’t that mean, holding this painting, Hill’s earth spells inflicted 200% damage each time?

William glanced at the nonchalant Hill, no wonder Hill seldom used earth spells in this world.

The painting’s earth blessings were already strong enough, and the active skills were even more impressive.

Enhancing spells for 20,000 people: increased movement speed by 30%, dodge speed by 25%, three times a day.

Enhanced spell shield for 20,000 people: increased physical defense by 35%, magic defense by 25%. twice a day.

Attack spell: Meteor Shower.

William didn’t much care about this earth attack spell, even if it was powerful, it was just a forbidden spell, its power was difficult to control. Against devils, it might not be stronger than the Sun God’s Scorching Radiance.

He was more concerned about the two enhancing spells.

These would indeed be extremely useful against the Undead Tribe, survival spells they were.

In the fantasy world, unless it was for the Undead Tribe, where would Hill find a war involving tens of thousands of people?

This kind of army battle treasure didn’t have much use in worlds where individual power was more important.

This divine artifact was likely designed by the Three Gods to help Hill make money?

No, William finally realized Hill was different!

If this child wanted, he could easily summon a large army from the Elemental Realm.

So the painting either sold to William as an ally for some living expenses or kept for Hill’s own survival.

Protective parents were truly hard to deal with! William sighed silently.

Hill noticed that William didn’t focus much on the Meteor Spells carried by the painting.

A knight completely unaware of the power of spells!

Hill had been stunned the first time he saw this spell.

Once released, it could annihilate the entire Saral.

Though the semi-divine artifact version wasn’t as high-level, it could still pulverize the city in front of them, including the Undead Tribe’s defensive array that had been continuously battered until now.

But apart from fighting Abyssal Demons or in Hell, Hill didn’t plan on using this spell.

He wasn’t ruthless enough to kill innocents alongside his enemies.

Hill himself hadn’t expected the Goddess would grant him such a powerful spell.

He could feel that after suffering tens of thousands of years of agony and severing her rational half-soul, the Goddess of the Earth, though still gentle and kind, seemed unable to stay in the kind alignment!

When facing enemies, this goddess had naturally chosen the most decisive offensive method, not the defensive approach as before.

Hill didn’t intend to discuss the change in the Goddess of the Earth with others.

Let the people of Teraxil believe she had always been of the neutral faction.

Even the Silvermoon and Sun Gods kept silent on the matter!

Though surprising, the change in the Goddess of the Earth wasn’t incomprehensible.

While she had been asleep, it seemed that because her divine soul was connected to the World Will, she had seen everything that happened in the past hundreds of thousands of years.

It was already the best outcome that the Goddess of the Earth still cherished Teraxil.

But Hill could feel that in the Goddess’s heart, the status of magical beasts wasn’t any lower than humans.

Even though humans were the Spirit of the Earth.

Hill glanced at the satisfied William who pocketed the painting, wondering if the Gods of Time and Space were prepared for this.

William chose to leave Teraxil himself, likely sensing the potential crisis humanity might face in thousands of years.

He lowered his head, not saying much. As long as humans remained strong, magical beasts would behave and stay in their territories.

The Undead Tribe had already stormed the Guardian City.

William sat on the throne, deep in thought: ”Do you think that God of Magic plans to flee? Or is he preparing to fight us to the death in the Royal Capital?

That’s where his Main Temple resides. If it’s destroyed, his Divine Kingdom will be too!

The Weave is a double-edged sword. Once disconnected, he might die immediately.

Otherwise, why would the demons only watch and not engage him?

The Weave might make him very powerful, but without it, he might not even wield legendary power.”

Hill said calmly: ”Those are just His Majesty the King’s speculations. Although there’s always been a legend about the Weave, we can’t fully confirm what it actually is.

Besides, hasn’t it been confirmed that this God of Magic is just a clone of some Demon Lord?

If the clone is destroyed, the Demon Lord’s power might just diminish slightly.

The main concern is your life, Your Majesty!”

”Rest assured.” William laughed, ”That Demon Lord’s enemy isn’t me.”